Getting Ahead of OND: Top Tips from Our Shipping Experts
Now is the time to start planning for the busy holiday season (OND). We’ve written about OND planning in the past, but this year we turned directly to our experts and asked: What are they seeing “on the ground” this year, and what advice do they have for wineries for the coming season? Here are their top three tips. Tip #1: Decide on Gifting/Kitting ASAP […]
More Expert Strategies to Increase DTC Wine Sales
The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) State of the US Wine Industry Report 2024 and the 2024 Sovos/ShipCompliant DTC Wine Shipping Report came out earlier this year, giving us some insight about how the U.S. wine industry did in 2023. These reports spurred a webinar session with Sovos/ShipCompliant and Commerce 7, reviewing the Sovos report and going over the online sales data trends from Commerce 7, […]
Employee Spotlight: Maria Carreras
This month, our employee spotlight is on someone who plays a critical role in our warehouse: Maria Carreras, part of our maintenance and sanitation team. Maria’s job is to help ensure all of our other employees have a clean, orderly environment in which to work, and that the warehouse itself stays clean and sanitary. Maria imagines that others would describe her as “funny, introverted, and […]
What Our Experts Advise When it Comes to Summer Shipping for Wine
Wine is sensitive to high temperatures, and that makes shipping it during the summer months extra tricky. Even if a bottle never passes through what we typically think of as the “hotter” states, the temperature in a carrier truck during the summer can be high enough to ruin a bottle for the end consumer. We’ve written about the various options for summer shipping many times […]
Meet the New Senior Vice Presidents at Copper Peak Logistics
Copper Peak is proud to announce new positions in our executive structure. Two long-term members of our team have received new titles: Stacey Heuer, formerly Vice President of Operations, has been named Senior Vice President of Operations. Merilee Anderson, formerly Vice President of Client Services, is now our Senior Vice President of Client Services. So, why the new titles? In plain terms, we’re recognizing Stacy […]
Three Ideas to Increase Wine Sales in a Slow Season, or a Slow Year
Wine sales have a seasonal cycle to them. Wine orders, especially DTC wine orders, tend to spike during the holiday season (OND) and then even out in the new year, tapering off to a slower season as summer approaches. But inventory does not always match this cycle. It’s not uncommon for a winery to see pallets of inventory waiting to move just as the slow […]
Employee Spotlight: Ana “Gabi” Zuniga
Meet Ana Zuniga—or “Gabi” as we know her—one of the packers here at Copper Peak Logistics. Together with our other packers, she is responsible for pulling orders and making sure our clients’ products not only get out on time, but that they are safely and beautifully packed so every end-customer is happy. Gabi brings a little bit of that happiness to our team everyday, too. […]